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Mobile Video Quality of Experience, Part I

Device manufacturers and carriers are touting the quality and speed of their offerings. You've probably noticed that they're always advertising how fast movies and videos can be downloaded, the quality of video streaming, and the sharpness of...

Published 01-31-2012 2:54 PM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Mobile Video, Quality of Experience, video streaming

Real Time Video Streaming Goes Big Time – Superbowl Sunday

Recently NBC announced that for the first time, the largest event in American sports, the Superbowl, would be streamed over its network and through a variety of other channels such as mobile. This is big news. Lots of television is available via streaming...

Published 01-27-2012 1:55 PM by James Rafferty

Filed under: Dialogic, Superbowl, video optimization, video streaming

Mighty Morphing of the Network Border Element, Part 2

In last week’s blog, I introduced this graph showing the history and expected trends for network border elements - the Media Gateway and the SBC. Graph derived from Infonetics data, November 2011 There are two interesting things going on in this...

Published 01-24-2012 11:35 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: LTE, Border Element, SBC, Session Border Controller

Mighty Morphing of the Network Border Element, Part I

Network Border Elements connect two types of networks to each other, sitting at the edge, or border, of each network. Looking at the data below from Infonetics, you can see a trend developing from back in 2007, which we will explore in more detail in...

Published 01-17-2012 11:54 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Voice over IP, Dialogic, Session Border Controller, SBC VoIP gateway, Infonetics

Skyping Along

Two years ago, Skype was doing about 13% of all International minutes . One year ago, Skype was doing about 20% of all International minutes . We should find out soon what the research analysts think Skype's percent of 2011 International minutes is...

Published 01-10-2012 10:57 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: video call, skype

The Premise Network, Part 3

A few weeks ago, I explored how fast networks and cloud computing are impacting the Premise Network. This week, the final blog of this series, let me explore some of the apps that could attach themselves to this kind of “new CPE” network....

Published 01-03-2012 11:02 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Cloud Computing, Video Conferencing, Unified Communications, HD Voice, SBC, Wideband audio, Customer-premises equipment, media servers, enterprise session border controller

2012 Predictions! Oh No!

It's the time of year to make some predictions. 2012 will be year of interactivity. What does that mean? The increased penetration of smartphones worldwide, with worldwide 3G network buildout, will enable more mobile interactivity via social networking...

Published 12-20-2011 12:17 PM by Jim Machi

Filed under: IPhone, SMS, Facebook, 3G networks, skype, mobile interactivity, bandwidth constraints, Social media

Scoring Last Year's Predictions! Oh No!

Last year, I made 5 predictions for 2011 . Let’s be honest and see how I did? 1. It will become more of an everyday occurrence that people find the benefit and joys of using WiFi offload instead of utilizing the 3G data path. Score: Probably right...

Published 12-13-2011 10:30 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: IPhone, Wifi, IPad, Cloud, IP, TDM

Some Predictions for Cloud in 2012

I have an aversion to the end of year ‘top things that have happened this year’ or ‘will happen next.’ This blog is not a 2 hour TV program counting down the 100 must see TV moments or even the top predictions for Cloud in 2012...

Published 12-08-2011 9:39 AM by Neil Weldon

Filed under: Consumers, Cloud, Africa, security, 2012, Reliability

Just in Time for the Holidays...Fast, Fast , Fast , FAST!!

Yesterday, I experienced my first LTE interaction by using an LTE phone that belonged to a colleague. I am not usually easily wowed, but Wow, that was an unexpected experience. I knew it would be fast but I was floored by just how fast it was! I mean...

Published 12-07-2011 10:21 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: LTE

The Future Premise Network, Part 2

Last week, I level-set on what a typical Premise Network might look like today. Advanced networks, including mobile networks, are impacting the definition of the premise though and so this “typical” concept is evolving rapidly. More and more...

Published 12-06-2011 11:20 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Cloud Computing, Unified Communications, Customer-premises equipment, Premises Network

The Future Premise Network, Part 1

Two weeks ago, I presented at the US Telecom Voice Innovation 2011 Conference on the topic "The Premise Network." While it might not sound so interesting, the Premise Network is undergoing much change because work is not just a place to go anymore...

Published 11-29-2011 12:34 PM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Unified Communications, Voice over IP, Dialogic, PBX, Premise Network

My iPad, One Year Later

About a year ago, I got an iPad to use at work. About a month after I got it, I predicted I wouldn’t use it too much since I found the iPad great at consuming content but not creating content. And I create a lot of content, for instance this blog...

Published 11-22-2011 10:36 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: IPad

Mobile Payments and the Role of SS7

Back in June, I wrote a blog about mobile commerce and using your phone to pay for services, or using your phone to enable mobile banking. These are all huge growth opportunities for the industry. I wanted to follow that up with some comments about how...

Published 11-15-2011 10:08 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: SS7, SMS, Smartphone, Mobile payment, Mobile Commerce, Near field communication

Pure Kryptonite for SMS?

The last few months, I have been thinking a lot about SMS. We’ve had customers deploy and develop voice and video SMS solutions, which are innovative in their own right, and we’ve seen what Twitter can do. But at a very high level, what is...

Published 11-08-2011 10:18 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: SMS

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